DEA seizes key execution drug in Ga.

[KamaAina]

Source: AP

The Drug Enforcement Administration confirmed Tuesday that the agency seized Georgia's supply of a key lethal injection drug because of questions about how the stockpile was imported to the U.S.

DEA spokesman Chuvalo Truesdell said he didn't know if other states' supplies of sodium thiopental were being collected. The seizure comes less than two months after a convicted killer in Georgia was executed, despite raising questions about where the state had obtained the drug and whether or not it had expired....

Sodium thiopental, a sedative that is part of a three drug cocktail used in executions, has been in short supply since the sole U.S. manufacturer decided to stop producing it.

The shortage has delayed executions in several states, and an Associated Press review found that at least five states — Arizona, Arkansas, California, Georgia and Tennessee — had to turn to England for their supply of the drug. Nebraska, meanwhile, secured a stockpile from an Indian firm.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110315/ap_on_re_us/us_execution_drug

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As I recall, California had to turn to Arizona to get its fix of what we now know to be the bogus English drug.

And to think, if I were President, I might have abolished the DEA. Shame on me!!!

[Countdown_3_2_1]

1. Well. Back to hangin I guess

People used to make a big party out of it.

[midnight]

2. This is madness....

[DeadEyeDyck]

3. the lessons of prohibition

was never learned

[Modern_Matthew]

4. Better that than someone growing an organic hallucinogenic. nt

[DeSwiss]

5. Reality is the ultimate.....

...hallucinogenic. The irony of legally requiring the use of a "safe execution drug" has never ceased to amaze me in its surreality.



K&R

[AtheistCrusader]

6. I'd abolish the death penalty first, but yeah, the DEA is high on the list.

[Blacksheep214]

7. How about chasing

counterfeit pharmaceuticals?

These are killing people! Hmmmm! :dilemma:

[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

8. Somebody committed a pretty serious felony here,

The illegal import of a schedule 3 narcotic carries seven years in prison,

[jerseyjack]

9. DEA would still be first on my list to defund.

Next to go would be Arne Duncan..not the department, just the dolt running it.